Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola was the first drink ever to include extracts from the kola nut (because of the caffeine) and 130 years later it is still the benchmark cola. You know what it tastes like and you know where to get it. Coca-Cola is the cola that everyone else wants to beat.
In 1982 The Coca-Cola Company launched the first alternative to the Classic Coke; Diet Coke which in no time became the best selling diet soft drink in the world. Since then Coca-Cola have been made in a ton of varieties. Have you tried some of these?:
Blak, Caffeine-Free, Cherry, Cinnamon, Clear, Coffee Plus, Diet, Ginger, Green Tea, Lemon, Life, Lime, Mango, Orange, Peach, Raspberry, Vanilla, Zero.
While some of them seems gimmicky and were short lived, others have caught on and have become big sellers like Diet Coke and Coca-Cola Zero Sugar.
A Coca-Cola Classic contains 9.6 mg caffeine per 100 ml. The sugar level is 10.6 %.
Personally I find Coca-Cola to be the least interesting brand in my collection. They are available everywhere and they never miss an opportunity to create limited edition designs for various events and seasons. I have a handfuld different Cokes in my collection.
Left: 237 ml, right: 250 ml
The oldest cola in my collection is this Coca-Cola from 1992. The design is in the event of The International Triathlon in Eilat, Israel. It has Coca-Cola written in Hebrew on one side, and in English on the other.
Left: Purchased 2016 in Sweden, right: Purchased 2019 in The Netherlands.
Coca-Cola Zero Sugar made a limitied edition design when the movie “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” was launched in December 2017. Six versions were made, each with a portrait of one of the main characters from the movie.
The Star Wars design was launched worldwide on cans. In France, however, aluminum bottles were used.
These have been sold.
In Kenneth’s collection
- 330 ml can, Coca-Cola written in Hebrew on one side, form Israel in the event of The International Triathlon 1992 (exp. November 1992)
- 250 ml glass bottle, bottled in Greenland (exp. May 2006)
- 250 ml glass bottle, Denmark (exp. March 2017)
- 237 ml glass bottle, Tenerife (exp. August 2017)
- 422 ml glass bottle, Coca-Cola written in Thai on one side, Thailand (exp. 2017)
- 150 ml can, The Netherlands (exp. 2020)
